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The findings tell two stories. On the one hand, the use of online social networks for partner seeking is associated with an increase in sexual risk behaviors. On the other hand, the use of social networks is associated with increased knowledge and HIV/STI prevention behaviors among homeless youth.

Young and Rice conclude: Our findings suggest that online social networks are popular among homeless youth, and that they can be used as a tool for sexual health interventions. As online social networks continue to increase, these networks could potentially increase sexual risk behaviors by facilitating an easy way to meet new sex partners. They could also potentially decrease homeless youths' sexual risk behaviors if the networks are used as effective sexual health communication and information portals by health researchers and agencies, to inform users about their risks and offer information on how they can protect themselves.

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In normal circumstances we would feature an interview with the author of the my blog Erotic Book Club Book of the Month but sadly, Pauline Réage, the author of Story of O passed away in 1998.However, the author's life is so fascinating and the hidden tale behind the Story of O so intriguing, there's no way that we couldn't let you in on it!Story of O is widely acknowledged to be one of the most famous erotic novels of all time. Graham Greene described it as a rare thing, a pornographic book well written and without a trace of obscenity.Harold Pinter called it a remarkable piece of work, while Brian Aldiss proclaimed, I do believe that Pauline Réage had confounded all her critics and made pornography (if that is what it is) an art.These are just a few of the incredible compliments from some of the most prolific literaries of modern times, especially as Story of O has been so controversial and divisive in its approach to sex, feminism, discipline and submission.Pauline Réage was the pen name for Anne Desclos, a French journalist and novelist who also went under the name of Dominique Aury. Each pen name appeared to come with its own persona - Anne Desclos being the humble, well educated, bilingual journalist who was known for her hard work and commitment. Dominique Aury was less shy and retiring, becoming a go-getter in the competitive world of editorial and becoming the only woma.

have had more nuance and sensitivity and less simplicity and black-and-white thinking than I found it to have. Ultimately, despite my strong desire to love this movie, Ive got more critique to offer than waves of my proverbial pom-poms.

The Power of Peers

As an advocate for young people, I loved comments in the film about the power of having confidence in young people to engage in responsible sexual behavior, and I deeply appreciated attention paid to the ways in which parental or adult control,can contribute more to putting young people in danger than keeping them safe, especially when young people leave home, get freedom and autonomy, and then have a tough time managing because they’ve gone from almost-total external control to nearly none. But, there was also a very strong comment made by an adult in the film that peers can’t possibly provide each other with good mentoring or cross-education , a notion I found adultist and also preposterous in a film which showed all the ways adults arent doing it either. In my experience, when peers fail to educate each other well, and adults fail to educate young people well, it’s for very similar, if not identical, reasons, most of which have little to nothing to do with age.

Suffice it to say, particularly given that I do much of my work online, the suggestion in the film that the internet is not a place where quality sex information and education can be found was frustrating. The film showed images only from sites like Cosmopolitan, not from sites like Scarleteen, Planned Parenthood, Brook, Options for Sexual Health, Sex, Etc., Go Ask Alice or RH Reality Check, which often contain more comprehensive and factual sex information than any sex education class can, and which hundreds of thousands of young people find and use every day. After all, that girl talking about using Google to get her sex ed? Chances are good that when she did, she landed on at least one of these sites.

The European Model

By design, this film is specifically about teen sexuality, sex education, and parent-teen sexual communication in America. It sets up a dichotomy between the U.S. and other countries that I found more optimistic than realistic. As someone who works with international populations, I see common threads with sexual problems throughout nearly all nations. By all means, some of the critiques were sound and fair, and I agree with them in some cases, such as when comparing the U.S. and the Netherlands. Like the director, Im on Team Netherlands when it comes to how sexuality tends to be culturally treated and approached there. (There, now I can wave those pom-poms after all.) However, the world is not divided into only two groups of cultures, those like the U.S. and those like the Netherlands. The Netherlands is a unique culture in this respect. There are few nations like it.

For example, despite what I felt was a pretty rosy picture painted of Australia by the director, I hear from young people in Australia who are having trouble with sexual and interpersonal violence, which is a big problem on that continent. I hear from teens having a very hard time accessing sexual health services there, and having other similar issues and problems with sex and sexuality young people have here. Indeed, their teen pregnancy rates are lower than ours (that’s a bit iffy, since there’s no mandatory reporting of abortion there, but their birth rate is around 18 per 1,000, compared to our 52). Their STI rates, however, are nothing to write home about and have also been increasing among young people. Regardless, I don’t think it’s even sound to base the overall sexual well-being of a nation or population, on those outcomes alone, something that happens all too often in commentaries on teen sexuality, and which I find to be part of the problem we face in understanding, evaluating and addressing teen sexuality well.

Lack of Inclusivity

The film gave an important nod to how sex education lacks inclusivity for queer youth, and I always love to see the brave and fantastic Max Siegel. But since the majority of the film itself wasnt inclusive save that small nod, it felt like tokenism to me. Its great to ask for better inclusion, but if youre going to ask, youve got to model it, too, which I dont feel the film itself did.

There were also some presentations of race and class I felt uncomfortable with in the film. For instance, it felt to me like sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and teen pregnancy were presented as issues mostly about people of color. While there was explanation of why some STIs more heavily affect people of color , I came away feeling like that the issue wasnt explained very well, nor did it address the ways in which institutionalized racism plays a large role in perpetuating poor health in communities of color.

The Role of Gender

One of the biggest issues I had with the film was around gender. In the film, there are five young people who disclose very personal things about their sex lives: two young men and their parents, two young women and their parents, and, sans parent or address of parental communication, Max, who has previously disclosed his story in very public venues before this film, so hes in a different spot than the other four of this group.

Only the young women disclose sexual dishonesties in the film. Something about that feels exploitative to me, as .

lks and tests, for example, the percentage of men who would participate rapidly climbed above 75 percent as offers reached between $7 and $8.75 a month. But participation only inched up a little closer to 80 percent when offers were raised as high as $12.25 a month. Above $12.25 the potential participation rate even started to decline a little.

The result that sex workers would participate for much less money may be a result of their especially urgent need for money, Galárraga said. It is still a complex calculation for them, however, because the workers generally can earn more money for engaging in riskier behavior, for instance by not using condoms. On short-term financial basis, therefore, sex workers incur a penalty for doing what seems to be the right thing from personal and public health standpoint. For them, conditional cash payments can provide at least some compensation for making the healthier choices.

The data yielded other insights, including that about 9 percent of the men would not participate at any price. They tended to be more educated and wealthier.

Since obtaining the results, the researchers have continued their work by implementing a small pilot conditional cash transfer program with about 200 male sex workers and gay men with more than 10 partners a month, Galárraga said. The team does not yet have definitive results to report.

The stakes of the research, however, are high as the epidemic continues on the streets of Mexico's capital.

In addition to Galárraga, other authors are Sandra G. Sosa-Rubí and Cesar Infante of INSP; Stefano M. Bertozzi of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and Paul J. Gertler of the University of California-Berkeley, where the project began before Galárraga left Berkeley for Brown in 2010.

The National Institutes of Health (grant: K01-TW008016-04) and the Mexican National Center for HIV/AIDS Control and Prevention (CENSIDA) provided funding for the study.

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In response to a recent media scare about levels of phthalates in sex toys, my blog does its own hi-tech lab testing to bring you the safest sex toys!Further to a scare in 2001 over levels of phthalates in sex toys, a recent Greenpeace Netherlands report has brought attention back to the issue. The earlier scare had its effects - in 2005 the EU banned the use of the phthalate DEHP in children's toys, forcing toy manufacturers to develop alternatives - and the more recent Greenpeace research shows that many sex toys still carry high levels of phthalates.We've done our own research, both before (in our sex toys and phthalates buyer's guide - which links to other scientific research giving a more balanced view of the dangers of phthalates) and since the Greenpeace report.While the existing legislation only applies to toys and childcare articles which children are likely to hold in their mouths for long periods of time, we want our customers to be as confident as possible about buying sex toys, so we sent one of our most popular toys to a lab to have it tested for phthalates.So what did we send? Tracey Cox's Supersex Mini Rabbit Vibrator, which we've long considered the best mini-rabbit vibrator ever made: we even made a vibrator video about it!But even we hadn't put it through the kind of wringer it was put through by the laboratory test, which involved chopping up different parts of the toy, weighing them (using at least 5g of each part), then .

. Guidance would have helped her understand the importance of not presenting her own sexual choices in a way that her daughters hear them as an ideal they’re expected to meet, and which, if they don’t, they will need to keep secret from her so as not to disappoint her.

Doing sex education and sexual communication better also involves thinking about and leaving lots of room for how things are different for other people than they have been or are for us, or than we may perceive them to be for others. These differences are not just based on what nation someone lives in, but on things like gender, sexual orientation, embodiment, ethnicity, economic class, our smaller communities, and generational divides. It involves cultivating an awareness of our own double-standards, blind spots, and limited views, and working to expand those views and the behaviors and words that can stem from them. It also involves learning to listen to young people and to respond to what they’re really saying, not just what we want to hear or what they say that supports what we want to think or believe.

Im sorry to say that, overall, I found that the film failed to do this well. In failing to examine these difference, the film not only doesn’t show the how to communicate about sexuality well, but may eveninadvertently enable some of the ways people do so poorly.

No one lives in a vacuum, and we don’t all live in the Netherlands. Excellent teachers here have lost their jobs trying to provide quality sex education. Sex education for youth as a whole has a shortage of male educators in large part because it’s not uncommon for them to find themselves accused of having ulterior motives; some of us who provide it here as women are often presented as slattern. The young man in the Netherlands who feels comfortable displaying his collection of 170 condoms and his family live in a different place than a mother who, in 2001 in Baraboo, Wisconsin, gave her teenage son, who had become sexually active with his also-teenage girlfriend, access to condoms. When her son, acting responsibly, sought to get tested for STIs, she found herself facing criminal charges for providing him those condoms. Ive heard from progressive parents over the years who have gotten all manner of hell from their own families or communities for doing what Id consider very right by their teens around sex and sexuality.

By all means, those kinds of outcomes are not what happens all the time, but they add more reasons for adults to feel very afraid of communicating to young people well about sex, and to take the kind of approaches validly applauded in the film.

Parents and other allies cant change our cultural environment just by talking to teens, and our environment can create real barriers to that communication. So, it’s not just parents, churches, or schools who have to radically change; it’s our whole culture. Where we’re at with all of this right now isn’t something that happened because of media and the Internet or parents over the last decade or two. It’s something we’ve been cultivating since before the United States was established, with only a few brief times in history where we seemed to make some positive headway, only to lose ground again. For sure, it’s all a bit chicken and egg, but in this case, both have huge impacts.

It’s acknowledged in the film that talking about sex isn’t easy for parents. It also isn’t easy for teens to do with partners or other adults, or even with each other. It’s not easy for anyone, really, for all the reasons I’ve mentioned and more. I have talked with teens about sex and sexuality almost every day for over a decade, and you’re still never going to.

erapy for AIS is based on three pillars:

The first step is reinforcing the sexual identity of the subject with the help of psychologists. In cases of sexual ambiguity and determination of female gender, the second step is to perform a gonadectomy (removal of testicles), as they may become cancerous. Finally, it is necessary to administer hormone replacement therapy in case the subject is assigned the female sex. The prognosis of these patients is good if the testicles are timely removed, professor Mendoza states.

The Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Guideline for physicians and patients is available at the web site of the Biomedical Research Network of Rare Diseases (CIBERER) www.ciberer.es, the Spanish Association of Human Genetics www.aegh.org and the research group on cancer in patients with polymalformation genetic syndromes (www.ct-csgp.org).

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Previous praise for Deanna Ashford: 'Each sensuous escapade jumps off the page with non-stop, titillating thrills ... a satisfying, indulgent tale' Romantic Times, 4 stars (reviewing Barbarian Prize)If that hasn't piqued your interest, the following extract from Deanna's latest, Templar Prize, is sure to leave you hot under the collar:'Should we not try to comfort one another?' Berengaria plucked at the towel tangled around Edwina's hips. 'That must be most uncomfortable. Remove it and then we can go to sleep.''Very well.' The remaining candle was burning low now, the wax melting swiftly. It flickered unsteadily, making it difficult for Edwina to see Berengaria's expression in the dim light. Rather awkwardly, she struggled to free herself from the towel's constrictions and tossed it by the side of the bed.'Come. Lie down now and relax,' Berengaria said softly, but Edwina detected an underlying tension in her words. She understood why, she also felt the tension and her heart was still beating out of control as she snuggled down on the pillows with Berengaria next to her. Rolling onto her side to face Edwina, the princess added, 'Before we sleep you can tell me what happens next, after the kisses. Which I would like to practise again when you will permit me.''Again?' Edwina repeated, conscious that her entire body felt weak now as if her limbs were melting like the candle wax. Cautiously, she laid her hands on Berengaria's full bosom. 'Well, apart from kissing you, he will .

the governor awarded Heritage Community Services the state’s entire Title V sum without a competitive bidding process. In later years, after some outcry, there was a bidding process and interestingly Heritage Community Services continued to be the sole recipient of the state’s Title V money. In Fiscal Year 2003for example, $130,000 of the state’s Title V money was used for staff and administrative costs at the Department of Health and Environmental Control and the rest, $681,000, was given to Heritage Community Services. (In fairness this started before Bush took office and probably had more to do with Badgely’s relationship to the governor, whose office controlled the money, than to the future President.)

Her relationship with Bush was once again on display in 2002 whento South Carolina "and met with Badgley and staff from Heritage Community Services and the Lowcountry Crisis Pregnancy Center to discuss Heritages abstinence only-until-marriage programming.” The President was accompanied by his Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary, Tommy Thompson, who was in charge of the administration’s abstinence-only-until-marriage programs as well as marriage promotion programs.

During Bush’s reign in office, Heritage Community Services continued to benefit financially from the boon in abstinence-only funding. Between Fiscal Years 2003 and 20010 the organization received more than $4.3 million in Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage funding from the state of South Carolina., $4.7 million in funding from the federal government’s Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) grants, and more than $2 million dollars from the federal funding under the Adolescent and Family Life Act. According to SIECUS’ state profiles: "In all, the organization has received nearly $12 million in federal funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs over the past ten years.” This number reaches over 18 million when you add state money to the tally.

Not surprisingly, over the years there has been some controversy over the large sums of money the organization has received and questions about whether Badgely and her family have personally profited from this glut of taxpayer dollars. At least four members of her family have been compensated for their work with Heritage Community Services and Heritage Keepers including Anne, her husband Gordon, their daughter Sally Badgely Raymond, and her husband Jerry Raymond. A 2007 article in The Nation explains that Anne and Gordon set up Badgley Enterprises which markets and sells Heritage Keepers. The article explains:

That’s right, Heritage Community Services uses federal and state funds to buy copies of its own program from a private company that is wholly owned by the Badgley family.

Beyond the South Carolina Borders

While we can only speculate what the funding allowed the Badgely family to do, we do know that it allowed Heritage Community Services and its message to expand beyond its home state of South Carolina.At one point the organization boasted that its materials were being used in 22 counties in South Carolina as well as schools in Augusta, GA; Lexington, KY; Florida; Maine; Massachusetts; North Carolina; Rhode Island; and the Caribbean. It added that additional communities in Arizona, California, Delaware, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Africa were interested in using its programs.

It turned out, however, that its methods and materials were not welcome everywhere.In 2004, an affiliate calling itself Heritage of Rhode Island became the sole organization in that state to receive CBAE funding when it was rewarded a grant of $400,260. A brochure explained that the affiliate used two programs, Heritage Keepers and a second called Right Time, Right Place which it described as:

The affiliate stated that its goal was to provide abstinence education to 2,000 students in Rhode Island’s public and private schools.

Its seems, however, that some schools were not happy to have them—even though the programs were free. The Her.

he age of 31 were more likely to discuss prevention, testing, stigma and advocacy topics, while younger members were more interested in HIV knowledge-related discussions.

In addition, participants who posted about prevention and testing had over 11 times the odds of requesting an HIV testing kit than participants who did not discuss those topics.

Given that all the study participants were from Los Angeles, the findings may not apply to men from other areas, the researchers noted.

Still, the findings suggest that social networking technologies can help increase HIV and STD-related communication among African American and Latino men who have sex with men.

Participants frequently and willingly used social networking groups to initiate HIV-related conversations, and HIV/STD prevention-related conversations were associated with increased requests for home-based HIV tests, the researchers write. As social networking usage continues to grow among at-risk populations, it becomes important to understand how to use these innovative and engaging social technologies for population-focused STD prevention.

Devan Jaganath, a medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA,co-authored the study.

The National Institute of Mental Health (1 K01 MH090884) funded the research, with additional support from CHIPTS and the UCLA AIDS Institute.

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d thus preventing the patient’s reinfection. By reducing reinfection rates, EPT may also help prevent HIV. For example, women with untreated chlamydia who are exposed to HIV are five times more likely to become infected with HIV than women without chlamydia. That’s because chlamydia changes the immune system in ways that make women more susceptible to HIV.

Getting STDs treated isn’t just good for HIV prevention; it is also good for reducing the strain on the health-care system. Untreated STDs can cause a myriad of poor health outcomes, including sterility and pregnancy complications in women. People with these types of complications require many health-care visits over a lifetime beyond simply getting treated for the initial STD. And the estimated 20 million STD incidences annually come with a total cost of $15.6 billion to the health-care system. EPT is not a panacea to eliminate the burden STDs place on the health-care system, but it could help make a serious dent.

EPT saves the health-care system’s scarce resources in another way: Because EPT reduces reinfection rates, fewer patients return to health-care providers for repeated treatment, and this minimizes the cost borne by the health-care system. Similarly, EPT essentially allows medical professionals to treat a patient’s infected sexual partner(s) without seeing them in a clinic or hospital, again reducing the financial strain on the health-care system. In addition, EPT can be more cost effective than other, more traditional .

s increasing the chances of the incoming virus to disseminate through the tissue. Also, IL-7 stimulates T cell proliferation, thereby also providing to HIV even more potential targets to infect.

The authors speculate that IL-7, together with other cytokines, may determine sexual transmission rates of HIV-1 and that changes in the seminal cytokine load may explain differences in HIV transmission from different individuals. However, whether the effect of IL-7 that has been demonstrated ex vivo occurs also for sexual partners in vivo, is a subject for future research. If this increase does occur in vivo, then it should be investigated whether HIV-1 infected individuals that have been treated systemically with IL-7 in order to increase their T cell counts may have also resulted in the unintended increase of their seminal IL-7 levels. Finally, this study suggests that seminal cytokines may become new targets for HIV-preventive strategies.

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